Christmas gift of Copernicann heliocentricity

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ima...2000_tezel.gif

Galileo wrote of these motions and using time lapse footage and the
internet medium as a visual guide,the explanations blossom as one of
the greatest Western intellectual achievements.

Galileo -

[Here Salviati explains Jupiter's motion, then follows with:]



"Now what is said here of Jupiter is to be understood of Saturn and
Mars also. In Saturn these retrogressions are somewhat more frequent
than in Jupiter, because its motion is slower than Jupiter's, so that
the Earth overtakes it in a shorter time. In Mars they are rarer, its
motion being faster than that of Jupiter, so that the Earth spends more
time in catching up with it. Next, as to Venus and Mercury, whose
circles are included within that of the Earth, stoppings and retrograde
motions appear in them also, due not to any motion that really exists
in them, but to the annual motion of the Earth. This is acutely
demonstrated by Copernicus . . .



You see, gentlemen, with what ease and simplicity the annual motion --
if made by the Earth -- lends itself to supplying reasons for the
apparent anomalies which are observed in the movements of the five
planets. . . . It removes them all and reduces these movements to
equable and regular motions; and it was Nicholas Copernicus who first
clarified for us the reasons for this marvelous effect." 1632, Dialogue
Concerning the Two Chief World Systems


The Ptolemaics considered the observed motions in terms of epicycles
while the Copernican heliocentrists substituted the faster annual
orbital motion of the Earth overtaking the slower moving out planets to
resolve the same observations and infer heliocentricity at the same
time -

Apart from the Ptolemaics and the heliocentricists are the miserable
empirical cataloguers who have overun astronomy with their crude
reasoning.The same observation which served the Ptolemaics and its
accurate transfer to Copernican heliocentricity is now reduced to brute
retrograde motions and framehopping while introducing a celestial
sphere -

"For to the earth planetary motions appear sometimes direct, sometimes
stationary, nay, and sometimes retrograde. But from the sun they are
always seen direct,.."

http://members.tripod.com/~gravitee/phaenomena.htm

At least this year ,cataloguers can be isolated as Newtonian
quasi-geocentrists,again,the good news is that Copernican
heliocentricity and its later Keplerian/Roemerian refinements are best
appreceated using the internet,where the Ptolemaics seen epicycles,the
heliocentrists seen a faster Earth overtaking the slower moving outer
planets -

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ima...2000_tezel.gif


For those of faith,Merry Christmas and for those who have made a belief
out of empirical indoctrination then you have less to celebrate this
year than you did for the last 3 centuries.True astronomy is bound to
surface from the shadow of optical astronomy and the era of goto
telescopes.The most valuable astronomical insights cost nothing and can
be appreceated in their majesty without turning observations as we look
out into a celestial peep show.

You have imposed empirical notions on celestial phenomena long enough
when celestial phenomena dictates its own majesty for the humble person
who approaches it with awe rather than an optical device.Whatever I can
do to recover the Western astronomical heritage, which is almost lost,
I will do however those who imagine that they can safely restrict this
heritage to pretty pictures and optical hardware will have less places
to hide the coming years than ever.I will make you famous for all the
wrong reasons.